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OS 3.0.1 and 3.1 break jailbroken phones

DRTigerlilly

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I came across the rumor @ the iphoneblog, one user is claiming the reason why users are having so many issues with the 3.0.1 and 3.1 updates is that Apple purposefully included software to "break" jailbroken phones, essentially rendering them useless, and this is the cause of users signal issues etc.

Whether or not there is any truth to this is another story, but does kind of sound like Apple.
 
I would say the rumor is false..ppl had problems when updating the firmware from 3.0 to 3.1 bcuz Apple's update also updated the basebands for the phone (not too familiar with basebands but this is how it went down) which would affect jailbroken users..updating firmware would "unjailbreak their phone" and there was/is to my knowledge no way to "downgrade" firmware..

The rumor you are hearing about may be someone who unlocked their phone to t-mobile or something and updated to 3.1 (again updating ATT's baseband) unjailbreaking the phone and cutting of service from their not ATT provider..that sounds like a more reasonable explanation of their situation..

If you have an iphone on att network and jailbreak your phone just to see what its all about..few days later find out not that big a deal and want to unjailbreak your phone you can..just restore firmware and dont follow jb procedures...I've never heard of anyones phone not working after being jailbroken except for the instance above
 

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